& DON'T BUY, SAYS HISTORIAN U.S. selling cold war in exclusive package Cultural group tours Rumania MARGARET FAIRLEY J. Me WALLACE © waxcarcr Fairley, editor of New Frontiers, and two of the magazine's main contributors, Avrom and. J. S. Wallace, are in Rumania on an invitation ex- tended to New Frontiers by Ru- manian cultural organizations. The occasion is the tenth- anni- versary of Rumanian. liberation. Margaret Fairley has devoted sll her gifts as a scholar and an editor to help to build a Canadian culture. Avrom has achieved in- ternational as well as Canadian fame for the biting commentary on political and cultural affairs of his cartoonist’s brush. J. S. Wallace is similarly known and loved throughout the world for his poetry. New Frontiers is - asking the help of its supporters to pay the travelling costs of its delegation through which it aims to build cultural understanding between Canada and countries of’ the so- cialist part of the world. Con- tributions should be sent to New Frontiers, 153 Dunn Avenue, To- ‘ronto, Ont. . | ads since 1946 Canadians have been subjected to “the great- est sales campaign in the history of the United States—a campaign to sell the cold war in an exclus- ive American package,” Prof. D. G. Creighton, eminent Canadiaw historian, stated at the recent In- stitute of International Affairs Conference at Lake Couchiching, warning that Canadians were be- coming 7 tetine! subservient tv the U.S Creighton, University of Toron- to lecturer and author of a num- ber of works on Canadian history, charged that the U.S. was de- manding a common philosophy for the Western world. “This American insistence up- on ideological uniformity is dan- gerous for Canadians,” he warn- ed. He assailed what he termed the “get tough” attitude of the U.S. in foreign affairs and de- scribed Western negotiators in these words: “The ideal negotiator for the West, as he is conjured up in the columns of our newspapers, is a species of diplomatic gang- . ster with a truculent manner, a rasping voice, a short voca)- ulary consisting chiefly of nega- tive expressions, and an up-to- date equipment of blackjacks and sawed off shotguns evhich he is prepared to use at the slightest notice.” Urging ‘Canadians to cast of this “U.S. concept of diplon:acy,” Creighton said it was the assump- tion that “peace. is the dark goal of underhand and sinister in-' trigue,” and that every conces- sion, even the acceptance cf ne- gotiation, was “appeasement,” which must be dispelled. - “Diplomatic virtue does not consist of delivering ultimatums, precipitating- showdowns, break- ing off negotiations. Our real aim is ts make honorable settle- ments which will enable our coun- tries to live side by side in peace.” The policy of the U.S. govern-~ ment that the basic conflict in the world was one of ideologies threatened world peace. “Out of it there arises a fan- atical spirit, brooking no com- promises, which clamors for a war cf righteousness for exter- mination of all those heretics Who refuse to accept our prin- ciples and share our way of life.” Creighton’s sharp criticism of the U.S. brought from J. F. Bol- and, ‘Toronto lawyer, the typical McCarthyite demand ‘that he be dismissed from his post at Uni- veristy of Toronto as having “no qualifications to teach the youth of this country the truth.” Boldnd’ s demand was flatly re- jected by Sydney Smith, presi- dent of University cf Toronto, who said that Creighton “has every right as a citizen to speak his mind on oe affairs.” © Hungary to publish three British authors ) TRANSLATIONS of three British books are shortly to be pub- lished in Hungary. They are: The Loved One, by Evelyn Waugh; Betrayed Spring, by Jack Lindsay; and Not Like This, by Jane Walsh. Selected short stories by the great Australian writer, Henry Lawson, will also be published in an Hungarian ‘translation. © Counting the dead ‘and injured in Vancouver’s mock atom-bomb blast last June are Air Vic& Marshal F. V. Heakes, civil defense chief, and his assistant, G. E. Raley. But Dr. E. D. Adrian’s warniy ‘places their grim game in true perspective and presents peace as the only real defense against atomle war. BRITISH SCIENTIST WARNS ROYAL SOCIETY Two-thirds of civilization could e destroyed by pressing button EEP in an underground shelter a scientist presses a button . in the world above therc is an explosion . . . greater than mankind has ever known... . it destroys two-thirds of civilization. Fantasy? Something out of science fiction? No, a dreadful possibility envisaged by Dr. E. D. Adrian, O.M., in his presidential address to the annual meetin» of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Ox- ford. Dr. Adrian, who is also president. of the Royal Society, warned his hearers that repeated atomic explosions might lead ito a degree of general radioactivity which no one could tolerate! or es=" cape. His subject was “Science and Human Nature.” He made it an earnest plea for the association, which since 1831 has worked for the advancement of science, to show the layman where the scien- ' tific age was leading him. Scientists listened in deep silence jas the 64-year-old presi- dent detailed in precise terms —- so quietly, so logically, as to add force to his words — the horror of atomic warfare. | Advances in natural science, he said, could not avoid advancing the methods of warfare. “But although the strategists have to think mainly of im- mense explosions and great de- vastation, it would be a mistake to suppose that these are the only dangers. : A “few hundred large bombs” would reduce Britain to ashes and the rest of the world would escape the radiation, but a major war between vowers well armed with bombs .. . wouid certainly involve an order of radioactive contamination which would in- volve us all, victors as well as vanquished. “Arguments that war does ‘not pay will not count much when: ideals are threatened. “It is true that a war' which would probably end in whole- sale - destruction can only appeal which make us behave as be do; he must study human 74 ture to prevent its failures. fh “But he cannot wait for thé discoveries which might make us act more wisely. “He must take us as we are and make his task at meeting> like this to point out that the human race cannot stand more than afew thousand. large to people who are desperate, but they can be made desperate and that is the end we have to guard against.” oe As long as-the world was split into two opposing groups each armed with large stores of atomié weapons the risk would remain. 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